A Chelsea man threatened to kill a Framingham man and his family in order to collect $150,000 he claims he was owed, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

Devair Teodoro-Lima, 52, also created a fake website claiming the victim was a murderer wanted in Brazil, prosecutor Melissa Baima said during Teodoro-Lima's Framingham District Court arraignment on Tuesday.

The alleged shakedown actually began in 2011 when Teodoro-Lima, then of Somerville, began calling the Framingham man, claiming the man's father owed him money for a land deal in Brazil, the prosecutor said.

When the man told Teodoro-Lima he owed him nothing, Teodoro-Lima repeatedly called, as did several of his friends, demanding the money. He then set up a website with the murder claims, Baima said.

Growing fearful, the Framingham man agreed to pay Teodoro-Lima $3,000 to pay off the debt.

"Two weeks later, the defendant called and said he owed him another $150,000," Baima said.

In January through March of 2012, Teodoro-Lima left at least seven different threatening messages on the man's voicemail, demanding money.

"He said he had the 'courage,' to snap not only (the Framingham man's) neck, but his family's, too," Baima said.

In another call, Teodoro-Lima "said he had people in Brazil waiting for the word to kill his family," the prosecutor said.

Police issued a warrant for Teodoro-Lima's arrest, and Burlington Police arrested him Monday around noon. Framingham Police picked him up and brought him to Framingham.

Police charged Teodoro-Lima, of 61 Shurtleff St., with extortion, threatening to commit a crime and making annoying phone calls.

Baima asked Judge Robert Greco to hold Teodoro-Lima on $25,000 bail. She said he had at least two more aliases and threatened extreme violence. She also asked the judge to order Teodoro-Lima to surrender his passport so he could not flee the country.

Lima's lawyer, Kenneth Gross, argued that the charges were too serious. He also argued that his client is owed a lot of money.

"Maybe there's something to his story that he got cheated out of a land deal," Gross said.

Baima argued, even if that were the case, threatening to kill people to collect money is still a crime.

Greco ordered Teodoro-Lima held on the $25,000 bail, ordered him to surrender his passport and to have no contact with the alleged victim or his family.

Teodoro-Lima is due back in court on Feb. 4 for a pretrial conference.

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